Main Idea: Every believer should actively participate in the church’s mission to make disciples which extends beyond our wall to the ends of the earth.

1 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.

The Reality of the Mission

• 2a “‘And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.
  • Revelation 7:9, 10

The Strategy for the Mission

• 2b Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest
  • John 15:16
  • Romans 10:1
  • 2 Thessalonians 3:1
• 2c to send out laborers into his harvest.
  • John 17:14–18
  • Romans 10:14, 15
  • 2 Corinthians 9:6–10
• 3 Go your way; behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves.
  • Matthew 28:19, 20

So What?

• How will I pray; how will I send; and how will I go?
  • Isaiah 6:8